Almost 400 people jammed into the arena which is at the heart of King’s College Otahuhu on Tuesday for the powhiri [MÄori welcoming ceremony] that launched the 2015 Common Life Missions Conference.
They came from all walks, and from all corners – including Africa, Australia, England and the Middle East – to reaffirm their convictions that mission involving every person in the Communion, is at the heart of Anglicanism.
Or, as the conference’s keynote speaker, the Revd Dr Chris Wright, later put it: “It’s not so much the case that God has a mission for the church, to be carried out by a few church-paid professionals – as that God has a church for his mission.”